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depended upon. As for a rule about returning, it is 

 somewhat difficult to give one. If I should say, re ■ 

 turn all such as issue after the 20th of June, the vari- 

 ation in the season might be two or three weeks, even 

 in the same latitude ; i. e., the course of flowers that ' 

 had bloomed by that date in one season might, another 

 year, require two weeks more to bring out. Also, 

 the 20th of June, in latitude of New York City, is as 

 late as the 4th of July in many places further north. 

 I once had a second swarm on the 11th of July, that 

 wintered well, having nearly filled the hive. Yet, in 

 some seasons, the first swarms, of the last of June, 

 have failed to get enough. In sections where much 

 buckwheat is raised, late swarms do more towards 

 fiHing their hives than where there is none. 



MORE CARE NEEDED BY AFTER SWARMS WHEN HIVED. 



Should it be thought best to hive after swarms, and 

 risk the chances, they should receive a little extra 

 attention after the first week or two, to destroy the 

 worms ; a little timely care may prevent considerable, 

 injury. They are apt to construct more combs in 

 proportion to the number of bees, than others ; con- 

 secLuently, such combs cannot be properly covered and 

 protected. The moth has an opportunity to deposit 

 her eggs on them, and, sometimes, entirely destroy 

 them. 



TWO MAT BE UNITED. 



Whenever these swarms issue near enough toge- 

 therj it is best to unite them. I have said second 

 swarms were generally half as large as the first. By 



